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Microsoft Project

Composite Score
8.7 /10
CX Score
9.0 /10
Category
Microsoft Project
8.7 /10

What is Microsoft Project?

Stay organized, focused, and in charge. Tackle anything from small projects to large initiatives. You may or may not be a project manager, but now you can be the boss of any project with a powerful, easy-to-use app.

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Awards & Recognition

Microsoft Project won the following awards in the Project Management - Enterprise category

Microsoft Project Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

86 Likeliness to Recommend

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95 Plan to Renew

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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value

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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+90 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Microsoft Project?

2% Negative
8% Neutral
90% Positive

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Respectful
  • Enables Productivity
  • Saves Time

Feature Ratings

Average 83

Planning and Scheduling

86

Collaboration

85

Resource Management

84

Dependency and Milestone Tracking

84

Document Management

82

Workflow Management

82

Hierarchical Task Management

82

Reporting

82

Time & Expense Tracking

82

Budget Management

82

Mobile Access

78

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 81

Business Value Created

83

Ease of Implementation

83

Quality of Features

82

Usability and Intuitiveness

81

Availability and Quality of Training

81

Ease of IT Administration

81

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

80

Breadth of Features

80

Ease of Data Integration

80

Ease of Customization

80

Vendor Support

79

Microsoft Project Reviews

Jhonny C.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Communications
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Our path has been slow, but sure

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

It is one of the basic technologies that we implement here in our company. With project management software like this, you get to bring your tools and methods together on a single platform, allowing your team to be more established and optimizing their energies for cleaner, more grounded planning ability than ever before.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

it gives you all the tools you are likely to need in a single platform, making everything extremely easy for everyone involved in the process. By carrying out this type of solution, you give your team the tool they need to assist in the same project and effectively work together by representing the current status of each task, being able to notify each other, collaborate research, help each other, among others.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Therefore, making changes to the plan is quite cumbersome. Because the plan depends on close support from the team, any segment that leaves the team can impede the entire project.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Project management software gives you the convenience of projecting your budget, but also distributing it appropriately across all costs that come along with the project, helping you (and your team) manage capital much more smarter than before. The great thing about working with project management software is that you can actually see every step of your project.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Effective Service

Dereck F.

  • Role: Sales Marketing
  • Industry: Communications
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

We have been making progress and the software get

Likeliness to Recommend

7 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

It is about software that approves specifying and planning tasks, either using the traditional organization with Gantt and in the most sophisticated choices they already agree to go further and use the Critical Chain or Earned Value techniques, companies (large and small), most of the softawre have these characteristics

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

We used to manipulate plans through a chain of different platforms and methods, involving but not limited to emails, spreadsheets, manual reports, phone calls, and regular meetings, today all of this comes together on one great platform, essentially

What do you dislike most about this product?

It can be quite rigid and lead to less malleability later in the planning process. As a result, the creativity and innovation of a team are restricted.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

What this software does is to provide a fulfilling environment in which you and your team can participate, collaborate, and get busy together on the tasks ahead to successfully complete a project.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Hudson A.

  • Role: Operations
  • Industry: Construction
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Nov 2022

Effective planning of projects.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Microsoft Project from other similar products?

It is easy to link two tasks and compare how much progress you have made to your initial plan. Microsoft project offers in built tools for planning, timekeeping, scheduling and managing resources for your projects.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It allows for accuracy in calculations since it gives me control over the resources I allocate to projects. Microsoft projects has improved the effectiveness of my work since I am able to schedule each phase of construction and create real time reports. I use it within the MS ecosystem with MS excel tables for ease of creation of projects.

What do you dislike most about this product?

You need training before using MS projects. Knowing all the features and their use is tough for newbies.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

Microsoft Projects has enhanced our decision making in terms of project management. It also enables us complete projects with the allocated time

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

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